All Chapters of They Chose Her, So I Married the Comatose Don: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

As the only daughter of the Rossi family, I had three exceptional men handpicked and raised by my mother as potential husbands.Once, they had gone to extraordinary lengths to win my affection. One bought me a centuries-old watchtower on the Sicilian coast. Another presented me with a one-of-a-kind black diamond ring.Then Blair, the daughter of our longtime butler, returned from boarding school, and all three men became obsessed with her.They adored her kindness, her innocence, and her delicate nature. Meanwhile, they condemned me for the coldness and ruthlessness I had developed after growing up in a world of blood and violence.Once they had broken my heart beyond repair, I washed my hands of the three ungrateful bastards and agreed to marry Vito Capello, the Don of the Capello family, who had been left in a vegetative state.The news shattered their pride.What I couldn’t understand was why they still thought I was playing hard to get—even after I became Vito’s Donna.“Have you lo

Chapter 2

Gritting my teeth against the pain, I pushed myself upright. I hid my scraped palm beneath my glove and set off to find my mother.I hadn’t even reached the main entrance when Blair came stumbling toward me in a flowing white dress.As she turned to face the three men chasing after her, triumph flashed in her eyes.She leaned close and whispered with a soft, mocking laugh.“Even after you give them up, they’ll still love me.”The next second, Blair let out a piercing scream and hurled herself down the steps.“Miss Rossi, I’m sorry!” she cried. “I’ll never compete with you for their affection again!”Raphael raced over as though he had lost his mind and gathered Blair into his arms, his eyes red with distress.“Blair!”Matteo charged up the steps, fury eclipsing everything else.Before I could say a word, he grabbed me by the hair and dragged me toward the fountain.“How could you do that to her? You know she can’t fight back!”Agony ripped across my scalp, and a cold sweat broke out al

Chapter 3

After Raphael left, the room fell silent except for the faint hum of the IV pump.Before leaving for an emergency business trip overseas, my mother came to sit beside my bed.“Raphael said you slipped and fell into the fountain,” she said, studying my face. “Is that really what happened?”The truth rose to my lips.All I had to do was tell her. She would believe me. She would make all three of them pay.Then I remembered the knife against my throat. I saw my nanny lying dead in some alley and my father’s mausoleum reduced to rubble.I had no way of knowing how long the three of them had had men planted among our guards, or how many people inside the Rossi family were already loyal to them. Until I knew whom I could trust, I had to keep the truth to myself.I dug my nails into my palm beneath the blanket and forced myself to nod.“I slipped.”My mother brushed the damp hair from my forehead. The worry in her eyes nearly broke me.As she turned away, I bit down on my lip and swallowed ev

Chapter 4

The room went dead silent. Raphael, Matteo, and Luca stared at her, the color draining from their faces.For the first time, they seemed to realize that I was seriously considering marrying Vito. Until that moment, they had mistaken my years of devotion for a promise that I would always choose one of them, no matter how they treated me.My mother rose slowly, murder in her eyes. She called an emergency family meeting and summoned everyone to the main salon.Blair dropped to her knees, sobbing.“Mrs. Rossi, it wasn’t me. Miss Rossi knocked the bowl over herself.”Raphael, Matteo, and Luca fell over one another trying to shield her.Matteo even attempted to take the blame.“I put the cleaning solution in the porridge. Blair had nothing to do with it.”“Shut up. All of you.”My mother’s laugh was cold. She looked at the three men as though they were rabid dogs she regretted ever sheltering.“Effective immediately, Raphael, Matteo, and Luca are stripped of all managerial authority and acce

Chapter 5

Vito made his way through the crowd toward me. After years in a vegetative state, he was leaner than the man I had heard about, but the authority in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest.He stopped in the center of the ballroom and swept an indifferent gaze over the crowd.“An engagement party shouldn’t be missing its groom. It seems I arrived just in time.”“I’ll ask you one more time.”His gaze dropped to Raphael’s hand.“Who gave you the nerve to touch my Donna?”Raphael released me on instinct and stepped back, his face tightening.Vito stopped in front of me and lifted my arm to examine the red marks around my wrist.His touch was almost gentle. His eyes were anything but.“You hurt her hand. Yours will pay for it. Fair is fair.”Two bodyguards seized Raphael at once.I gave Vito’s sleeve a light tug. “This is our engagement party.”Vito lowered his eyes to me, and some of the murderous intent surrounding him actually receded.“As you wish.”Raphael’s expression darkened f

Chapter 6

I stared at Vito in disbelief. “If you were already awake, why did you keep it a secret?”Vito led me to a private sitting room upstairs. The moment the door closed, some of his composure slipped. He braced one hand against the edge of a table, his breathing turning labored.I reached out to steady him without thinking. “You haven’t recovered yet?”“I was unconscious for too long. I can’t stay on my feet for extended periods yet.”He took advantage of the moment to wrap a hand around my wrist, making no attempt to let go.“Is my fiancée worried about me?”I tried twice to pull free and failed. “I would rather you not collapse at our engagement party.”Vito gave a low laugh. Only then did he tell me the truth about his recovery from the car accident.The damage to his brain had begun healing six months ago, but members of the Capello family’s lesser branches had no intention of letting him wake. They bribed members of his medical team to keep him on dangerously high doses of sedatives,

Chapter 7

Raphael’s POVRaphael had no memory of walking back to his room. All he could see was Vito fastening the silver medal around Alia's neck.After the kidnapping when Alia was seventeen, she had followed Raphael everywhere, telling him again and again that she would never forget what he had done for her.Raphael had never asked why she was so certain it was him.He enjoyed her gratitude and devotion, accepting every bit of her affection as though it belonged to him.No matter how fiercely Raphael denied it, he had feelings for Alia.He simply refused to be seen as a man the Rossi family had raised to marry her. Even more than that, he refused to admit that everything he had came from a woman.So he rejected Alia from his lofty perch, all while remaining certain she would never leave.Blair was delicate and obedient. She looked at him with worship in her eyes and made him feel like a man who could protect someone without relying on the Rossi family.Alia was too strong. So strong that all

Chapter 8

The steward pulled up the footage from the day Blair carried the hot porridge into Alia's room.The kitchen cameras had captured everything.After making sure she was alone, Blair took a bottle of corrosive cleaning solution from the supply cabinet and poured it into the steaming porridge herself.She practiced crying in front of the mirror several times before picking up the bowl and heading toward Alia’s room.There were no cameras inside the bedroom, but the hallway recording had captured every sound.When the bowl shattered, Alia's scream came first.Alia kept begging someone to call a doctor. Blair did not begin crying and apologizing until she heard the three men approaching.When they rushed into the room, not one of them took a proper look at the burns on Alia's face.Raphael had looked at Alia once. But the moment Blair began crying, he decided Alia was pretending to be hurt again.Matteo had personally ordered every servant to leave and had the doctor turned away.The three o

Chapter 9

Alia's POVOnce my mother learned the full truth, she gave no one another chance to defend themselves.She expelled Blair from the Rossi family and ordered Raphael, Matteo, and Luca out of the estate before dawn.The three men refused the severance money she offered, insisting they would repay the Rossi family for raising them.I found the claim almost laughable.Raphael stopped me at the foot of the stairs, his voice raw.“Alia, I didn’t know...”I looked at him calmly. “You never tried to know.”Raphael’s eyes were bloodshot. It took him a long time to force out the words.“I admit it. I always knew you loved me.”“I knew that if I threatened to call off our engagement, you would give in to Blair. I thought that no matter what I did, you would choose me in the end.”For the first time, he abandoned every trace of pride and pleaded with me. “I’ll send Blair away. I’ll tell everyone the truth. Just don’t marry Vito. Please.”Matteo and Luca stood nearby, their faces equally hollow.Mat

Chapter 10

A fortune’s worth of fireworks burst above the castle. Vito held my hand as we walked down an aisle lined with deep red roses. Members of the Rossi and Capello families filled the seats on both sides.My mother sat in the front row. Her eyes were red, but she was smiling.Before the ceremony began, someone delivered an unsigned letter.One look at the familiar handwriting told me who had sent it.I did not open it. I tossed it into the blazing fireplace.The flames consumed the paper within seconds.Vito made no attempt to stop me. When I returned to his side, he simply tightened his hold on my hand.“You don’t want to know what he wrote?”“It doesn’t matter.”The corner of Vito’s mouth lifted. “Then I suppose I don’t have to worry about my bride changing her mind.”“You were worried?”“Of course.” He leaned close to my ear. “I waited all these years for you to finally choose the right man.”As the ceremony neared its end, he had an attorney bring forward a document.“I hereby transfer

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